Wild boar stew with cherries
Game has recently become an elite dish. In families hunters – this is the usual food. Each has its own proprietary method. Try cooking boar stew with cherries. Recipe copyright. So they cook boar on the Don in the Cossack village. It turns out much tastier than pork.
Braised boar with cherry.
There are a lot of options for marinade for boar meat. It’s wild cranberries, lingonberries and even red currants. Historically so it turned out that they prefer to take sour berries. Now you can buy any frozen or dried berries. Try the option with cherries. It makes no difference – from the freezer or fresh. The smell of the forest which is considered indestructible in game, becomes softer and more appetizing.
To cook boar meat with cherry you will need:
- Wild boar – 1,5 kg.
- Vinegar (can be wine or balsamic) – to taste
- Juniper berries – 5-6 pcs.
- Onions (not salad, but spicy, “evil”) – 3 pcs.
- Celery root, parsnip (if you find), parsley, garlic.
- Fat (if lean boar) – 50 g.
- Cherry – 200g.
- Sugar, salt, spices (you can Provencal herbs).
- Red wine (better fortified) – 50g.
- Mustard – 50g.
If you buy a ready-made mix of spices, pay attention to its composition. Rosemary, turmeric (saffron, ideal for game) expensive), tarragon.
You can cook boiled stew with cherry So:
Rinse the wild pork with running water and chop along fibers. It is better if the pieces are slightly smaller than shish kebab. Then “boar” is better marinated.
In the dishes, lay the meat sprinkled with spices and coarse crystalline salt (!).
This is very important because salt will draw blood and will conductor of spices in meat fibers.
Remove the seeds from the cherry, mash the berries with a wooden cracker and mix with the boar along with the juice.
If the spices are fresh, lay the layers of boar with twigs tarragon, other herbs and juniper berries.
Let the boar meat stand for 1-2 hours. During this period, salt, cherry and spices will make their “fragrant business”.
Add wine, vinegar, and taste the marinade. If fluid not enough, add water.
How to pickle boar? Depends on meat: female or male, young or old. 5-6 hours to 2 days.
In the pan, put the lard, melt the fat, put the chopped onions, plant roots. As soon as everything is fried, add meat boar and simmer under a closed lid until cooked. Cloves of garlic mix with meat 10 minutes until cooked.
Tasty ideas
If boar lies in “strategic reserves”, then I want to to cook different dishes. Try to make for this forest exotic cranberry sauce or ayvar sauce. Different ingredients – different tastes.
